Delany's favorite books
 

"a handful of novels by Balzac and Flaubert; the ficiton and essays of Davenport, Nabokov, Woolf, and William Gass; a solid 'reader's' volume each of works by Borges, Beckett, Bester, Sturgeon, and Sir Thomas Browne; a pile of comics by Alan Moore; Hugo Von Hofmannsthal's The Lord Chandos Letter; Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare; Richard Hugh's A High Wind in Jamaica; Djuna Barnes's Nightwood; John Keene's Annotations; a block of the ten Pater volumes; some Foucault; some Derriday; Christian Bök's Eunoia and Lucien Goldmann's Philosophie et les sciences humains; my Keats and my Keats Circle; Eric Auerbach's Mimesis, John Livingston Lowe's Road to Xanadu, Spencer-Brown's Laws of Form; Silliman's Ketjak and the rest of The Age of Huts; Saintsbury's History of English Prose Rhythms; Lessing's Laocoön; story volumes by Denis Johnson, Alice Munro, and Junot Diaz"
 
"Wescott's Pilgrim Hawk, Tsypkin's Summer in Baden, Baden, Russ's Souls, [...] L. Timmel Duchamp's Alayna to Alayna"
 
looking forward to: "the remaining novels of W. G. Sebald I've yet to read, the truly wonderful later Michael Moorcock, the next volume of John Crowley's AEgypt tetrology"

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